The Client by John Grisham

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarrette when a chance encounter with a suicidal laywer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client -- even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from John Grisham's The Litigators.

Since first publishing A Time to Kill in 1988, Grisham has written one novel a year (his other books are The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, The King of Torts, Bleachers, The Last Juror, and The Broker) and all of them have become international bestsellers. The Innocent Man (October 2006) marks his first foray into non-fiction. Grisham lives with his wife Renee and their two children Ty and Shea. The family splits their time between their Victorian home on a farm in Mississippi and a plantation near Charlottesville, VA.

Unrated Critic Reviews for The Client

Kirkus Reviews

Grisham's latest opens with a neat hook into the reader's jaw- -and the tension never wavers—as the author strives for a knockout suspenser with echoes of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson—or at least the reader can't help weighing what he's reading against the darker plots that e...

Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

In the unsettling opening minutes of The Client, the latest nuts-and-bolts thriller from the John Grisham toolbox, Mark Sway (Brad Renfro), an 11-year-old with the sloe-eyed gleam of a contemporary Tom Sawyer, takes his little brother (David Speck) out for a smoke in the Tennessee backwoods.

Los Angeles Times

In the movie adaptation of the John Grisham novel "The Client," rebellious 10-year-old Mark Sway is chased by the mob after witnessing the death of a Mafia lawyer and hires a feisty lawyer to protect him.